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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: word frequency in English (me-too request)
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.041550.10822@uwasa.fi>
Date: 20 Apr 91 04:15:50 GMT
References: <13834@adobe.UUCP> <91100.124514II70038@MAINE.BITNET>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <91100.124514II70038@MAINE.BITNET> II70038@MAINE.BITNET (Jonathan A. Kimball) writes:
>In article <13834@adobe.UUCP>, mjward@adobe.COM (Michael J. Ward) says:
>>
>>Where can I find a list/dictionary/datafile of English words sorted by
>>relative frequency in various classes of usage.
> 
>I have also been looking for this.  I could be way off on this, but I
:

For general information.  If you want to make the frequency counts
yourself there are facilities for that in /pc/ts/tspell24.arc
(wordlist.exe in there), and /pc/fileutil/wlist10.arc. 

The wares are available by anonymous ftp from garbo.uwasa.fi, Vaasa,
Finland, 128.214.12.37, or by using our mail server (use the latter
if, and only if you don't have anonymous ftp).  If you are not
familiar with anonymous ftp or mail servers, I am prepared to send
prerecorded instructions on request.  (If you don't get the
instructions from me within a few days, it will mean that your email
address cannot be reached by a simple email reply.  It that case,
contact your system manager for devicing a proper mail path for you,
because unless you do, you wouldn't be able to utilize the mail
server anyway.  If you are in North America first consider using an
ftp site near you to spare the overseas load.)

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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